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Software Engineer, Workers Deploy & Config
Cloudflare INC · 🇺🇸 In-Office
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 120 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Cloudflare INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles19 certified filings for “Senior Systems Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $185k–$204k, median $195k. Most were filed at wage level II (47%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Cloudflare INC
The US Department of Labor certified 120 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 30 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Position Location: Austin, TX | Lisbon, Portugal About the Role Join the Workers Deploy & Config team, the engine behind Cloudflare’s serverless edge developer platform. You’ll build the large-scale systems that let developers deploy, configure, and manage Workers globally, from simple static sites to full-stack applications serving millions of users. This team powers the foundation behind much of Cloudflare’s developer platform, including services like Pages and R2. The work combines distributed systems, high-traffic APIs, performance, reliability, and developer experience. Responsibilities • Design, build, and ship features and services within the Workers control plane. • Improve the platform’s performance, availability, and scalability. • Design resilient storage schemas and I/O patterns for long-term platform growth. • Contribute to architecture and design discussions for foundational capabilities. • Own production reliability, including participation in on-call rotation. • Partner with Product Managers and customers to translate complex problems into scalable solutions. • Drive projects independently from requirements and specs through implementation, testing, and release. • Share knowledge and mentor interns and junior engineers. • Research, prototype, and introduce new technologies when they solve meaningful problems. Desirable Skills, Knowledge & Experience • Strong experience using Go in production environments. • Experience with JavaScript and TypeScript. • Experience with metrics and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana. • Experience with SQL and relational databases such as PostgreSQL. • Experience with Kubernetes or similar deployment tools. • Knowledge of or experience with distributed systems. • Proven ability to drive scoped projects from concept to release. • Familiarity with implementing and consuming RESTful APIs. • Proficiency using AI coding assistants and agents with good judgment to review and verify generated code before shipping. Bonus Points • Experience scaling systems to meet increasing performance and usability demands. • Experience working on a control plane or data plane. • Experience using Cloudflare Workers or Pages. • Product mindset and com